Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

xii, 88 pages ; 24 cm

Collection of original letters by Bkaʼ-blon Bshad-sgra (pages 2-52), addessed to various lamas, ministers, chieftains, etc., and obtained by Das while in Tibet in 1881-1882; also includes letters partly composed and partly compiled by Bla-ma Shes-rab-rgya-mtsho, head lama of Ghoom Monastery, near Darjeeling, (pages 54-72); and a popular letter-writing manual for business and ordinary correspondence, which was obtained by Mr. A.W. Paul, Political officer with the Sikkim Expedition of 1888

"Part III, containing standard letter-forms for business and ordinary correspondence used by the tung-yigs (correspondence clerks of Tibet)."

A later edition of this work was published in 1938 in Chengdu, China

Library's copy lacks pages 83-[88?]

Part I. Bkaʼ-blon Bshad-sgras brtsoms pa bzhugs so -- Part II. Bla-ma Shes-rab-rgya-mtshos brtsams pa -- Part III. Yig bskur rnam gzhag

Annotation by Gegen Dorje Tharchin; Copy identified as Tharchin's copy

Forms part of the Tharchin Collection Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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